Verse 1
Come! Let’s sing for joy to the LORD! Let’s shout out praises to our protector who delivers us!
Verse 2
Let’s enter his presence with thanksgiving! Let’s shout out to him in celebration!
Verse 3
For the LORD is a great God, a great king who is superior to all gods.
Verse 4
The depths of the earth are in his hand, and the mountain peaks belong to him.
Verse 5
The sea is his, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
Verse 6
Come! Let’s bow down and worship! Let’s kneel before the LORD, our Creator!
Verse 7
For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him!
Verse 8
He says,“Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,
Verse 9
where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.
Verse 10
For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said,‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’
Verse 11
So I made a vow in my anger,‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”